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" My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV. "

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" I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station. "

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" I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. "

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" I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else. "

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" I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. "

" There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. "

" There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. "

" Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. "

" Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. "